This week’s podcast guest is Jessica Lennard, chief strategy officer at the CMA, who discusses how the regulator has to balance its work with the world’s largest tech companies with the vast startup market, how the CMA’s competition regulation is evolving to suit innovation and why the wider regulatory regime as a whole is changing in the era of the modern industrial strategy.
The Competition and Markets Authority is the UK’s regulator for corporate competition, overseeing areas such as mergers and acquisitions, ensuring companies meet pro-competition requirements and consumer protection.
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